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Updates since v1.7.3
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+ * The documentation Makefile now assumes by default asciidoc 8 and
+ docbook-xsl >= 1.73. If you have older versions, you can set
+ ASCIIDOC7 and ASCIIDOC_ROFF, respectively.
+
* The option parsers of various commands that create new branch (or
rename existing ones to a new name) were too loose and users were
allowed to call a branch with a name that begins with a dash by
/etc/gitattributes; core.attributesfile configuration variable can
be used to customize the path to this file.
+ * The thread structure generated by "git send-email" has changed
+ slightly. Setting the cover letter of the latest series as a reply
+ to the cover letter of the previous series with --in-reply-to used
+ to make the new cover letter and all the patches replies to the
+ cover letter of the previous series; this has been changed to make
+ the patches in the new series replies to the new cover letter.
+
* Bash completion script in contrib/ has been adjusted to be also
usable by zsh.
+ * Different pagers can be chosen depending on which subcommand is
+ being run under the pager, using "pager.<subcommand>" variable.
+
+ * The hardcoded tab-width of 8 used in whitespace breakage checks is now
+ configurable via the attributes mechanism.
+
+ * Support of case insensitive filesystems (i.e. "core.ignorecase") has
+ been improved. For example, the gitignore mechanism didn't pay attention
+ to the case insensitivity.
+
+ * The <tree>:<path> syntax to name a blob in a tree, and :<path>
+ syntax to name a blob in the index (e.g. "master:Makefile",
+ ":hello.c") have been extended. You can start <path> with "./" to
+ implicitly have the (sub)directory you are in prefixed to the
+ lookup. Similarly, ":../Makefile" from a subdirectory would mean
+ "the Makefile of the parent directory in the index".
+
+ * "git blame" learned --show-email option to display the e-mail
+ addresses instead of the names of authors.
+
+ * "git commit" learned --fixup and --squash options to help later invocation
+ of the interactive rebase.
+
+ * "git daemon" can be built in MinGW environment.
+
* "git daemon" can take more than one --listen option to listen to
multiple addresses.
+ * "git describe --exact-match" was optimized not to read commit
+ objects unnecessarily.
+
* "git diff" and "git grep" learned how functions and subroutines
in Fortran look like.
+ * "git fetch" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
+
* "git mergetool" tells vim/gvim to show three-way diff by default
(use vimdiff2/gvimdiff2 as the tool name for old behaviour).
* "git merge --log" used to limit the resulting merge log to 20
entries; this is now customizable by giving e.g. "--log=47".
+ * "git merge" may work better when all files were moved out of a
+ directory in one branch while a new file is created in place of that
+ directory in the other branch.
+
+ * "git rebase --autosquash" can use SHA-1 object names to name which
+ commit to fix up (e.g. "fixup! e83c5163").
+
* The default "recursive" merge strategy learned --rename-threshold
option to influence the rename detection, similar to the -M option
of "git diff". E.g. "git merge -Xrename-threshold=50% ..." to use
git-only login over ssh as login shell, with custom set of
commands.
+ * The current branch name in "git status" output can be colored differently
+ from the generic header color by setting "color.status.branch" variable.
+
* "git submodule sync" updates metainformation for all submodules,
not just the ones that have been checked out.
* gitweb can use custom 'highlight' command with its configuration file.
+ * other gitweb updates.
+
Also contains various documentation updates.
All of the fixes in v1.7.3.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * "diff" and friends incorrectly applied textconv filters to symlinks
- (d391c0ff).
-
- * "git apply" segfaulted when a bogus input is fed to it (24305cd70).
-
- * Running "git cherry-pick --ff" on a root commit segfaulted (6355e50).
-
* "git log --author=me --author=her" did not find commits written by
me or by her; instead it looked for commits written by me and by
her, which is impossible.
- * "git merge-file" can be called from within a subdirectory now
- (55846b9a).
+ * "git merge" into an unborn branch removed an untracked file "foo"
+ from the working tree when merged branch had "foo" (2caf20c..172b642).
* "git push --progress" shows progress indicators now.
* "git repack" places its temporary packs under $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack
instead of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/ to avoid cross directory renames.
- * "git rev-list --format="...%x00..." incorrectly chopped its output
- at NUL (9130ac9fe).
-
* "git submodule update --recursive --other-flags" passes flags down
to its subinvocations.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.3.2-245-g03276d9
+O=v1.7.3.4-567-g38a5932
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master